Over 100,000 Left To Die.... [View All]

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....That should be the headline tomorrow.By the grace of a benevolent universe it looks like the death toll on the Gulf Coast will be "merely" catastrophic. But 100,000 COULD have died in the United States that has a well advanced weather service, a multi trillion dollar budget, and an advanced infrastructure. This is not Sri Lanka with primitive fishing villages and a flawed warning system facing a crisis that strikes within hours. A modern American city watched a developing storm line up a head shot for several days and then left the underclass to take the bullet.
.....Those left behind were NOT "refuseniks" belittling the fears and vowing to fight the removal. Watch the pictures and see the 35,000 gathered in the best protection offered them, an untested, un-stocked, "refuge of last resort". There to be held in line for hours as the storm built in intensity, to avoid the dangers of both "the demon rum" and "the evils of second hand smoke". How well would you behave if your family was held outside in an approaching Category 5 storm for 4 hours over this?
....Could they have been evacuated? Hell YES!The trains and busses were shut down early.How many school busses were within the 250 mile radius of New Orleans? An order at 10am should have had them leaving by 2 or three pm....
...In short they were LEFT TO DIE in what this country has become.I am disgusted and you should be also....just my rant...